If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least… — Laozi Copy Share Image
My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. — Han Fei Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image